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Ron Moss, AU
Book Flower
Cover Art—"trip
drip"
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Haiga
Laryalee
Fraser, CA—Haiga;
Shanna Baldwin Moore—Haiga;
Pris Campbell—Haiga;
Maya Lyubenova, BG—Haiga; Gillena Cox, TT—Haiga;
Allison Millcock—Haiga;
Monica E. Smith—Haiga;
Ron Moss—Haiga,
Gerald England—Haiga;
an'ya—Haiga
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Sketchbook Authors
February 29, 2008, Vol. 3,
No. 2
an'ya, US
Hortensia Anderson, US
R. D. Armstrong, US
Ed Baker, US
Helen Bar-Lev, IL
Saul Bernstein, US
Gary Blankenship, US
Gerry Bravi, CA
Marlene
Buitelaar, NL
Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy, IN
James Dean Chase, US
Gillena Cox, TT
John Daleiden, US
Gerald England, UK
Hugh Fox, US
Judith Gorgone, US
Andreas Gripp, CA
Elizabeth Howard, US
Betty Kaplan, US
Larry Kimmel, US
Karina Klesko, US
Deborah P. Kolodji, US
Maya Lyubenova, BG
Mary Lee McClure, US
Shanna Baldwin Moore, US
Marlene Mountain, US
Yvonne Myers, US
Ron Moss, Au
Karen O'Leary, US
Zhanna P. Rader, US
Vaughn Seward, CA
Trish Shields, CA
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, US
Brian Strand, UK
Craig Tigerman, US
Max Verhart, NL
Don Wiggins, US
Sheila Windsor, UK
A. D. Winans, US
A
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Biographies
N
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Biographies
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Global
Correspondents
Correspondents:
John Tiong Chunghoo, Malaysia
Gillena
Cox, Trinidad
Sally Evans, Scotland
Helen
Bar-Lev, Israel
Cristian Mocanu,
Romania
Aju Mukhopadhyay,
India
Rita Odeh, Israel
Kala Ramesh,
India
E. E. Sule, Nigeria
Various
Correspondents will be featured from month to
month.
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Announcing March 2008 Kukai
For the March
2008 Kukai submit one to three HAIKU using the kigo:
wind. The exact kigo words must be used in the
haiku. No more than a total of three haiku may be
submitted:
Haiku
Author
To:
kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org
Subject:March08 wind Kigo
Submissions: Saturday,
March 01, 2008 –
Friday, March 21, 2008 Midnight.
Voting:
Saturday, March 22, 2008 – Wednesday, March 26, 2008,
Midnight.
The results will
be published in the Monday, March 31, 2008
Sketchbook
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Announcing March 2008 Haiku
Thread
For March
2008 the theme of the monthly haiku thread is
stars or constellations.
Writers may post an unlimited number of haiku to
the Thread.
Subject Line: Mar08 stars haiku
thread.
To:
haikuthreadeditor@poetrywriting.org
Deadline:
Midnight Wednesday, March 26, 2008.
Title
Author
All Haiku received
will be posted on-line at
March 2008 Stars Haiku
Thread.
The
Sketchbook editors will select their
Monthly Haiku Choice from this thread for publication in
the Monday, March 31, 2008 Sketchbook.
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Read the
poems by genre
Acrostic,
Cinqku, Cinquain, Crystalline, Dorsimbra, Fibonacci, Free
Verse , Ghazal, Haibun, Haiku, Kyoka, Lanterne, Light Verse,
Mondo, Pantoum, Rondeau, Sedoka, Shan-zi, Sijo, Sonnet, Stella
Renga, Senryu,
Tanka, Tetractys,
Triolet
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Sketchbook Special Features
February 29,
2008, Vol. 3, No. 2
Rengay
Authors
Gerry Bravi,
CA: Gillena Cox,
TT; Betty Kaplan, US; Larry Kimmel, ; Karina Klesko, US;
Ron Moss, AU; Max Verhart, NL
Read
the
Rengay
Haigay
Marlene
Buitelaar, NL and Max Verhart, NL—Nude
Study
Tri-Forked Zip Rengay
Karina Klesko, US
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moonlit
on her hat a flower |
stones
bobs along the hedgerow |
Sprite, UK,
Gary Blankenship, US, Mary Lee McClure, US
Paper Flower, The Hat, Enchanted Twilight
Haiku
Sequence
Yvonne
Myers, US, Zhanna P.
Rader, US, John Daleiden, US, James Dean Chase, US—Broken
Heart: A Haiku Sequence
Ron Moss, UK,
Sheila Windsor,
UK—Window:
A Two Line Haiku Sequence
Renhai
Three-Way Renhai
Hortensia Anderson, US and Zhanna P. Rader, US—Ice-Glazed
Branches
Zhanna P. Rader, US and Vaughn Seward, CA—Hanging
In There
Hortensia Anderson, US and Vaughn Seward, CA—Skaters
Hold Hands
Tanka
Karina Klesko, US, and Kevin Ryan, UK—Tanka
Photo
Haiga
John Daleiden, US and Zhanna
P. Rader, US—Pathways:
A Tanka Sequence
Haibun
Zhanna P.
Rader—A
Night Scare
Betty Kaplan—Another
Time
Karina Klesko—Connecting
Lives
Marlene
Mountain—shy
impressions of a knee-worn traveler
Colorenga
Judith
Gorgone, US and Karina Klesko, US—In
The Wind: An Orange Renga
Karina
Klesko, US and Judith Gorgone, US—Purple
Renga
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The
OutlawPoets II
A. D. Winans, US—Free
Verse: Untitled, Road Rage, Untitled
Shanna Baldwin
Moore, US—chemical
warfare
Pris Campbell,
US—In
A Flash
R. D.
Armstrong, US—Too
Soon
Shanna Baldwin
Moore, US and Carl Huffington, US—Haiga
Doug Draime—Free
Verse:
Questioning The Insane, earth
bound: world, Road Gnats, After A Strange Conversation With
A Member Of Congress, Nonpolitical Poetry
John Yamrus,
US—Free
Verse: there's a war going on, i make her a sandwich, some
dumb shit
Terry
McCarthy, US—Free
Verse: Mitt Romney's Lap Dance, Steve martin, An Encounter
With Tom Cruise 11/1/07
Christopher
Mulrooney, US—Free
Verse: the watcher, figuration nice, the old song, life in
the big city, discourse of a plantation man, Terza Rima on
Transitoriness
Victoria Locke—Sex
Without Love
Tracy
McPherson—Free
Verse: At
Last, A Winter Night
Lyn Lifshin—Free Verse from
January Poems 2006: January 3, 2006, On The Metro To
Ballet, January, Metro; from
Cove Point: Cove Point, Door Mat, Better To Just Let It Go
Ed Jamieson—Free
Verse: Moment
Stosh Machek—Free
Verse: *quan yin lives
in california*, *busy devil*
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Sketchbook II Editors:
Karina
Klesko
John
Daleiden
Shanna Baldwin
Moore
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childwriter's cover
childwriter's contents: January 31, 2008: Vol. 1, No. 1
Brian Strand,
UK—Vignette-on
Two Levels
Michemon, JP—Illustrator—Children's
Books:
Gallery 1;
Gallery 2;
Michemon Biography
Planetpals.com
is conducting an earth friendly and fun haiku contest to
help kids learn to keep the planet clean and healthy!
The contest aims to promote the introduction of haiku
into the curricula of elementary and junior high school,
spread the enjoyment and teach a comprehensive
understanding of poetic forms and environmental
awareness, so important today.
The contest is open to individual students. Planetpals
encourages this as a lesson plan or activity for
schools, camps, organizations and homeschools. This
contest starts on February 22, 2008 and closes on April
22, 2008.
Click here for complete information.
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"Kite" Kukai
First Place: Lorin Ford, AU
Second Place: Bill Kenney, US
Third Place: Melissa Spurr, US
Read the winning haiku in the
"kite" Kukai
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The Art of Haiku, Gerald England, ed.
Spirit Harvest, Trish Shields
unfinished book, Deborah P. Kolodji
Flowers of Life, Brian Strand
Shorthand of the Heart, Brian Strand
Poiema: Ekphrasis Poems, Brian Strand
Phaneros, A Selection of Lanternes, Brian Strand
Things Just Come Through, Ed Baker
Cobweb, Cristian Mocanu
Watching the Bud of Dream, Rita Odeh
The Language of Sparrows, Andreas Gripp
Like Darwin Among the Gods,
Andreas Gripp
Presence of Mind, Jim Kacian
Oklahoma Heat, Marc Thompson
(C)opyright Sign, Daniela Bullas
Animals are Nature's Poetry, Helen Bar-Lev
Cyclamens And Swords, Helen Bar-Lev
The Haiku Handbook, William J. Higginson
San Francisco Blues, A. D. Winans
whispers from hell, A. D. Winans
Rustle of Bamboo Leaves, Vicgtor P. Gendrano
Coast Lines, Trish Shields and
Katherine Gordon
Fire Pearls, M. Kei, editor
Heron Sea: Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay,
M. Kei
The Poetic Image, Alan Summers and Roger Brown
moments, Gillena Cox
seasons of a hermitess, an'ya
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